| Word has been received of the death of Mrs. Fanny O’Linn at her home in Chadron Monday afternoon. The body is to be brought here for burial tomorrow, Thursday, evening for interment in the Blair cemetery beside her husband, Dr. D.H. O’Linn, who died many years ago. She leaves an only daughter, Elizabeth O;Linn Smith, and her two children. Dr. O’Linn was a practicing physician here in an early day.
Tribune, 8/22/1926
Mrs. Fannie O’Linn, formerly a well known resident of Blair, died on Monday at her home in Chadron, Nebr., at the age of seventy-eight. Mrs. O’Linn had been seriously ill for several days. Funeral services were held in Chadron on Wednesday and the remains were shipped to Blair for burial.
Mrs. O’Linn, whose husband was Dr. D.H. O’Linn, once a well known physician in Blair, lived here in the late seventies and following the death of her husband, moved to Chadron. She was one of the oldest residents of Chadron, having originally been the owner of the land upon which the town is situated. It is said that Mrs. O’Linn was present at the first birth, the first marriage and the first funeral in Dawes county.
Mrs. O’Linn was admitted to the bar and for a number of years had been a practicing attorney in Chadron, winning a statewide reputation by virtue of the active part which she took in public affairs. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, and two grandchildren, Holden and Francis, of Chadron.
Pilot, 8/28/1926
A large number of old friends met the remains of Mrs. Fannie Brainard O’Linn at the depot last Thursday evening and accompanied it to the last resting place in the Blair cemetery by the side of her husband, whose death occurred in this city March 2nd, 1880. Their two sons, Bert and Hugh, are also buried in the family lot, both of whom met accidental deaths in young manhood. But one daughter survives, Mrs. Bess O’Linn Smith, of Chadron, with whom Mrs. O’Linn has been making her home for some years. There are two grandchildren, Frances, who teaches in the Chadron public schools, and Harland, who is in the newspaper work.
Dr. D.H. O’Linn and wife came to Blair in 1872 or 1873 and he practiced medicine here until his death in 1880. Mrs. O’Linn’s father was a noted lawyer and judge over at Mondamin, Ia., and she had been his secretary and bookkeeper so had acquired much of the profession in that way. After her husband’s death she taught school here for a year and then completed her law training in Omaha. She took a homestead out near Chadron and there practiced her profession as a pioneer for many years. Mayor Jim Dahlman came up from Omaha to attend the burial, he being an old Chadron resident, and well acquainted with the family.
The Omaha Bee carried an editorial about her life and usefulness, an unusual tribute to a woman of more than usual ability and forcefulness.
~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~
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